This “Friends (etc.)” is ultimately a version of that earlier show, like many that followed. Indeed, it seems no coincidence that “Friends With Better Lives” is coming to the air at the very moment that the network’s long-running “How I Met Your Mother” breathes its last.

The show examines friendship through that ‘grass is always greener’ lens. I mean, I can barely open my computer without feeling like I failed in a million different ways. Someone’s got the perfect family, the perfect kids, the perfect job, the perfect body. It’s human nature to want what we don’t have.

2. The Times Said It Should Be Called ‘Friends With Genitals’

The Times said that show should be renamed because it would be “better to reflect what its characters spend most of their time talking about.”

The paper went on to berate the characters’ dryness:

It’s about six uninteresting young people in one of those group friendships that exist primarily on television, in which they are constantly together and communicate mostly through one-liners.

USA Today agreed about the overuse of sexual innuendos, describing it as “one witless, thudding, sex-obsessed crack after another, from an opening joke about sitting on a carrot to another friend’s discussion of her various dates’ penile problems.”

The Washington Post also weighed in, saying, “jokes about testicles or breast-pumping or oral sex have been specially calibrated to walk right up to someone’s line of decency but not over it.”

This show in its own way is a little more risky than Entourage in a sense. Honestly, I’d be more comfortable with my nieces watching Entourage than this Some of the subject matters we deal with are just adult matters. It’s different because it’s on CBS so a lot of it is implied but it’s definitely still on the racy side. It’s a different set of rules.

5. Brooklyn Decker Said Shooting the Pilot Was The Most Nervous She’s Ever Been at Work

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Ex-supermodel Decker landed her first leading role in a comedy series. She plays Jules, who has just gotten engaged to Lowell, played by Rick Donald.

I set out to go into acting.And this show is great, because I love comedy. I don’t know if I was considered ‘funny’ when I was growing up. … People who have known me for a while would always be really surprised when I would, like, tell a dirty joke.

From the looks of her Instagram post, filming the show has been enjoyable for her.

Angela Barbutistarted her reporting career in the seventh grade at her middle school newspaper in Queens. She's had lunch with Tony Danza, and Dave Franco said he liked her accent. Follow her on Twitter @angciao.April 17, 2015 3:05 pm